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Solis Marine Consultants
Temple Chambers
3-7 Temple Avenue
London
EC4Y 0DA
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Nigel is the Solis Marine Chairman and brings to the Group a significant amount of executive and senior management level experience gained over more than 30 years within the marine consulting and offshore energy sectors. He is primarily responsible for assisting and advising the Partners and members of the senior management team on all strategic matters and for providing support to the implementation of the Group’s plans for growth.
Nigel was previously the Managing Director of a leading Marine Consultant and Surveyors where he led the sale of the business before overseeing a period of growth, introducing new service lines to the business to complement the traditional core activities. He was also previously Group Finance Director at a private equity backed multi-disciplinary Marine and Offshore Engineering Consultancy, and he has held the position of Strategic Director for the Technical Services Division of a leading UK listed shipping services group.
Nigel has a BA(Hons) degree in Business and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
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Master Mariner STCW II/2.1
Member of the Lloyd’s panel of Special Casualty Representatives (SCR)
Younger Brother of London Trinity House
Younger Brother - Assistant to the Board of Hull Trinity House
Liveryman of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners
Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute
John is the co-founder and Senior Partner of Solis Marine, also a master mariner and Younger Brother of London Trinity House, having substantial experience in command and as a first class pilot in the UK. He has acted as a nautical assessor to the High Court of Hong Kong and given expert evidence in London Arbitrations and Court, also in Court in Ireland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, Indonesia and Israel, during criminal and civil cases. He has provided expert reports on collisions, groundings, unsafe ports and berths, pilotage, use of tugs and maneuvering issues, seaworthiness, cargo loss, shift and stowage, personal injury and death, pollution incidents, fouling of submarine pipelines and cables and performance claims due to bad weather.
As well as acting as SCR he has also attended a number of high profile and politically sensitive salvage and wreck removals in Europe, Canada, South America, China, Philippines and Indonesia. During these operations he has been heavily involved from the initial preparation of the tenders through the oil, pollutants and cargo removal and storage to attendance during the clearance of the wreck site.
John was also a consultant mariner, based in London, for a leading firm of international marine consultants which included establishing and running the Hong Kong office as director where he built up a busy base. After returning to London he resumed his former role and became a director.
As a pilot on the River Humber in the UK, John has manoeuvred and anchored all types of vessels, including cape size and panamax bulk carriers and tankers through narrow channels to terminals in a river having a large tidal range and strong currents. Passage planning included the calculation of minimum depths for transit and under keel clearance, tug type and allocation followed by conducting vessels in and out of river berths and enclosed docks in all states of weather and tide. He has also undertaken pilotage of vessels over 300,000 tones deadweight to FPSOs and SPMs.
Command experience includes ocean towage and salvage in West Africa and extensive towage and anchor handling in all sectors of the North Sea, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and West Africa. Tows included disabled vessels, semi-submersible and jack-up rigs and all types of barges for the offshore sector. These operations involved carrying out own pilotage and river transits in many modern and undeveloped ports in the regions of operation.
John was also a contracts manager for a dredging operator undertaking pre and post dredge hydrographic surveys, during maintenance dredging projects in ports around the UK. This followed experience as a watch keeping officer trading worldwide on refrigerated cargo, general cargo carrying break bulk, container and bulk cargoes.
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Solis CV - John Simpson (pdf)
DownloadUniversity of Strathclyde & University of Glasgow
Master of Engineering in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering with merit 2009
Member of Royal Institution of Naval Architects 2016
Chartered Engineer (UK) 2017
Duncan is the Global Head of Naval Architecture Services providing consultancy to marine and offshore clients focusing on hydrostatic stability and strength analysis, casualty management and project risk management, and AIS and VDR investigations into shipping incidents.
In his previous role as a surveyor, at a leading IACS classification society, he was involved in vessel surveys including annual, intermediate and special surveys and various damage surveys as well as equipment certification. Prior to working as a surveyor Duncan has worked as a naval architect for various companies where he has been involved in many projects ranging from new build plan approval, stability analysis, damage inspection, repair specification and supervision, vessel modifications and strength analysis.
Duncan has also worked extensively with the analysis of AIS and VDR data to
provide visual representations of vessel movements for use in collision, casualty and traffic analyses.
In addition to his other duties Duncan is responsible for the management of the UK offices and staff.
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Solis CV - Duncan Campbell (pdf)
DownloadMaster Mariner STCW II/2.1
Trinity House Hull - Younger Brother
Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute
Jamie has over 10 years’ command experience of passenger/cargo liners trading world-wide and RoPax ferries operating in the Dover Straits and Irish Sea. Lately in command of the UK flagged passenger/geared cargo liner ‘ST HELENA’ trading from the west coast of South America to Saudi Arabia via the Straits of Magellan.
Extensive ship handling experience gained with berthing, unberthing and channel transits, with and without tugs. Pilotage exemption certificates (PECs) held for Dover, Calais, Milford Haven, Dublin, Holyhead, the river Humber to Hull and Zeebrugge.
Practical recent experience of shipboard management including passage planning, use of ECDIS (various systems) and application of SMS. Lead Auditor for ISM, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.
Previously in command of a new build, hybrid diesel-electric battery and Azipod propulsion ferry entering service between Dover and Calais. Whilst in command, and throughout his career he has attended multiple dry dockings and major vessel conversions. He has prepared dry dock specifications and appointed specialist contractors for all vessel upgrades and operations including, the renewal of steering systems, bridge equipment and the changeover to paperless navigation. Preparation of scopes of work, communication with flag state and classification surveyors, obtaining approvals, completing risk assessments and implementing onboard ISM procedures and HELM processes for safe operations.
Additional experience as a deck officer gained on traditional geared, general cargo vessels fitted with tween decks, deep tanks, geared container vessels and cruise ships, all trading worldwide. Also, RoRo paper product carriers with ice navigation experience in the Baltic.
As a marine consultant based in the Middle East, instructions carried out included incident investigations, provision of expert advice and preparation of expert reports on collisions, groundings, personal injury and fatalities, major oil cargo contaminations, bulk cargo contaminations, pollution, tank coating breakdown, cargo tank damage, and Notice of Readiness and charter party disputes. Also, client representative for jack-up rig moving and Marine Warranty Survey (MWS) attendances for project cargoes, and towage of rigs and barges.
He has attended salvage and wreck removal operations in the Middle East, India, Africa and Asia and provided technical advice during the drafting of BIMCO salvage contracts on behalf of International Group P&I Clubs.
Jamie has carried out surveys of oil tankers, chemical tankers and bulk carriers on behalf of Hull and Machinery, P&I and Loss of Hire Insurers.
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Solis CV - Jamie Simpson (pdf)
DownloadMaster Mariner STCW II/2.1
Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute
Lead Auditor (ISO 9001, ISM, ISPS)
Member of the Society of Consulting Marine Engineers and Ship Surveyors
Paul brings many years of experience as master of panamax, handymax, and handysize bulk carriers and ship management ashore. Cargo specialisation has included carriage of ores, coal, grain, steel products, timber and forestry products, container, cement, cars and trailers, project cargoes and heavy lifts.
Paul has given expert oral evidence in the High Courts of London, Dublin, Bergen and Hong Kong and during arbitration tribunals in London, Hong Kong and Singapore. He has also acted as a nautical assessor to the High Court of Hong Kong.
As a marine consultant, Paul has spent time in the London market as well as a number of years in Hong Kong as director of a busy office for an international firm of consultants. Instructions have taken him to all parts of Europe, Africa, Indian Sub-Continent and Asia for site attendances involving many types of marine incidents.
Paul has prepared expert reports and advice on issues relating to bulk and break-bulk cargoes including liquefaction incidents, unsafe port/berth claims and unseaworthiness. He has also investigated groundings, collisions, ISM, ISPS and navigation issues.
Paul has also carried out Hull and Machinery and condition surveys on a wide variety of vessel types.
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Solis CV - Paul Walton (pdf)
DownloadMaster Mariner STCW II/2.1
Society of Offshore Marine Warranty Surveyors No. 0209. Oil & Gas / Project Cargo
Paul is a master mariner with extensive experience and has spent over 17 years as a Marine Warranty Surveyor (MWS) and consultant within the oil and gas industry working with oil majors. He joined Solis Marine Consultants in January 2021 after being based in the Middle East with a major international marine consultancy. Much of that work was with oil and gas projects which required attendances worldwide. As a project leader, Paul provides management and full oversight of maritime projects in all the areas of his expertise which included many vessel surveys.
Paul’s principal activities concerned the provision of MWS services for large onshore and offshore energy projects. Typically, this required the review of all marine related procedures and attendances both onshore and offshore to approve and witness critical operations as outlined below.
Paul has acted as the representative of insurers and insured interests on several high-profile wreck removal projects including ‘CP VALOUR’, ‘SIERRA NAVA’ and ‘COSTA CONCORDIA’.
Paul also served as a first class pilot in the rivers Humber, Trent and Ouse in the UK where he manoeuvred all types of vessels to river berths and docks in all weather conditions and tidal currents with and without tugs. That work also involved transiting narrow channels with minimum under keel clearance when necessary.
As a deck officer he gained experience on anchor handling vessels, dredgers, reefers, Ro-Ro’s and product carriers.
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Solis CV - Paul Bryan (pdf)
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Mark is a senior maritime civil engineer who specialises in providing consultancy services to P&I Clubs, insurers, lawyers, ship owners and managers, port and terminal owners and operators.
Mark’s principal activities concern the inspection of damages to maritime and marine structures and mechanical handling equipment on a worldwide basis. He provides advice on causation, the nature and extent of damage, methods of repair and quantum, review of business interruption and loss of use together with providing engineering expertise including liaison with contractors and co-ordination of repairs works.
In addition to the investigation of damages to ports and harbours Mark has extensive experience of investigation of storm and other damages to marinas worldwide.
Mark has specialist experience in unsafe port and berth investigations and has prepared expert reports in respect of unsafe ports and berths for High Court and Arbitration proceedings and has given expert evidence in the High Court in London, the Appeal Court in Bergen, Norway and High Court in Cape Town, South Africa.
Mark also has specialist experience in seabed remediation following vessel groundings and wreck removals including preparation of the ITT, selection of contractors, contract negotiation and management and supervision of the works.
Since 2001, Mark has worked for international marine consultancies in senior positions. Prior to that, he gained more than a decade of specialist experience in the design and construction of major international multi-disciplinary projects such as ports and harbours, tank farms, oil import and export facilities, marinas, immersed tube road tunnels. Those operations also included design, site supervision and management.
His experience includes:
Mark Ball’s services are provided by Integra Technical Services Limited.
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Solis CV - Mark Ball (pdf)
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